| 单词 | boodle |
| 例句 | Perhaps “the boodle” also included the $10,000 that Burt had tried to make off with. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z What’s more, the informant said that Burt and Hale had “split on the boodle”—the sum of money—obtained from Bigheart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Jamie asked, “How come you don’t sell the sketch? You could get quite a boodle for it. Being that it matches up with the statue and all.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z That would be quite a nice boodle to put in their knapsacks if they were using knapsacks instead of instrument cases. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The increases - 150 percent on a pack of cigarettes plus 10 percent increases in alcohol taxes - no doubt will be sold as health measures that just happen to raise oodles of boodle along the way. Editorials from around Oregon 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z So, please, don’t fall for our starry, smoggy skies and our bottomless cache of boodle and Botox. Perspective | The 2024 Olympics in Los Angeles? No, thanks. 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z And the Yankees pointedly decline to share their boodle with fans in the form of cheaper tickets. Grumbling About Socialism, the Yankees Profit From It 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Bubba knows how to do politics — there’s nobody better — and Hillary, who’s a whiz at squeezing boodle from contributors with payback on their minds, hasn’t a clue. WESLEY PRUDEN: Hillary and Bill back on the campaign trail 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z This is a significant number relative to the market capitalization of $315 billion, but nowhere near Apple Apple’s boodle of some $150 billion. Berkshire's Quarterly Report: An Exercise In Obfuscation 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z First off, I don’t like buying stocks at $500 a share even if they hold a boodle of cash on their balance sheet. Is Apple The Great Short? 2013-09-17T16:13:00Z You must write a demand on the woman for the boodle. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z Not likely I should be such a fool as to hand the boodle over to men I didn't know by sight! Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z What, here—in this war of jobsters, this petty campaign of monstrous boodle? Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z “The diamonds is found and I got the boodle!” The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways 2011-11-04T02:00:22.360Z "Blues" and "Reds" have recommenced tearing themselves about patronage, places, planturous contracts and "boodle." England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z Boodle, bōōd′l, n. a crowd, pack—'the whole boodle:' stock-in-trade, capital. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Well, I believe I'd not put myself out to improve on mine," said Sam, "unless this person who is so flush with boodle wants to keep up the good work. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Not that I had anything against the woman: she was charming, fascinating, and had a pretty useful share of this world's boodle. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Do you know, partner, I think I might—if I get any boodle out of this thing that's coming off, I think I will. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z The world is a graft; flash enough boodle under nine noses out of ten, and you can do as you like with them. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z You may feel sot on them picturs, but I’d like to chuck the hull kit ’n’ boodle into the cow shed. The Girl From Tim's Place It is a good, even-money proposition that old Ben and the Wolves will get their hooks into the World’s Series boodle again this year. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager There is in this "promotion" the very climax of the irony of boodle. Labor and Freedom Coo was delighted: he drank and he sung Rum bum boodle boo over and over again; and he laughed and he danced, till he fell on the floor fast asleep. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Do you reckon he could tell and mark what those robbers did with their boodle?” The Auto Boys' Vacation The other was a very nice chap who had blood, brains, and boodle. H. R. A very happy device was the representation of Tweed’s face by a money-bag with only dollar marks for features, a device which, strangely enough, made a curiously faithful likeness of the “boodle”-loving despot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Did, or did not, the men known as trust magnates put up this boodle? Labor and Freedom But what Mr. Beckley wants to know now, is what's become of the swag, the boodle, the stuff Murky stole. The Auto Boys' Mystery Of course it was the boodle that kept him at work, doubtless meaning to leave when he got better. The Auto Boys' Vacation Any man who has witnessed this proceeding and not been outraged by it could hardly be considered a competent juryman in a Chicago boodle case. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 "No, I don't think the hull kit an' boodle of 'em is worth twenty dollars," acquiesced the old man. Doubloons—and the Girl These belong entirely to capitalist parties with their bosses and their boodle and have no place in a party whose shibboleth is emancipation. Labor and Freedom "Talkin' soldier, when y' know Matthews could buy th' hull kit an' boodle with a swig o' whisky!" The Plow-Woman “But this old printed paper doesn’t tell exactly where the boodle was hid, except that it was close to a big hemlock and under a big rock.” The Auto Boys' Vacation I know there’s boodle in her, and I mean to keep her. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Innumerable stories are told of the peculations of these "light-fingered gentry," but one of the best of the boodle is a story we are now about to dress up and trot out, for your diversion. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Yes, sir; nothing else than a squatting sentry, mounting guard over the boodle inside the trunk and protecting it from me! Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas And you think, Bob Hunter, that we could go down there with only five dollars apiece and lay out them kings and scoop the boodle, do you? The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street Another tramp was riding the brake beams and saw the robbers make off in the nearby woods with their boodle. The Auto Boys' Vacation It’s not a bonanza, but there’s boodle in it; and we’ll try it on.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) "Oh, you have the prince's boodle," I said lightly. Hurricane Island I know what he did with his share of the boodle—he had to take care of his political chums he got into other schemes. Otherwise Phyllis “I wish I knowed where the old man hid his boodle,” muttered Tom. A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance I’ll wager the girl who skipped with your stolen boodle has a sense of humor. The Madness of May That schooner, and the boodle on board of her, are bound to be here before three months, or it’s B U S T—bust.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) A ship can be cast away, and parties can be separated, and one party can make sure of the boodle. Hurricane Island You stole my share of those bonds, and now that you're in danger of getting caught you want me to help you hide the boodle. Otherwise Phyllis Such being the tie of a common sentiment, it is not surprising that the Americans are universally accustomed to graft and boodle. American Sketches 1908 But Epimetheus was a very slow fellow, certainly, and went among men for a clod, and a muff, and a milksop, and a slowcoach, and a bloke, and a boodle, and so forth. The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Unfortunately for me I was not born of the masses, as the royal knights of labor are now called by the American aristocrats of boodle. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block "I wish I knowed where the old man hid his boodle," soliloquized Tom. The Young Bank Messenger Lam ary one on 'em, an' you got to lam the whole boodle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Just at present I don’t believe all the boodle and graft in the world would turn a hair on him. Jewel Weed Because," pursued Kiddie, "if it was robbery, an experienced frontiersman like Nick Undrell wouldn't calculate on finding much boodle on a Pony Express rider. Kiddie the Scout I have often seen the police flag run up, but always managed someway to keep from giving up the boodle. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi There he was rolling in boodle and living on the fat of the land, while I had a three-fifty hall bedroom and was eating round at cheap restaurants. Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win The measure of a man is his brain and not his birth or his boodle. Dollars and Sense Well, I've reason to think the Mayor was in on it—and Burke—for no end of boodle. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day Looks as if he'd been in a precious hurry to get away with the boodle. Kiddie the Scout The boys all agreed that my conduct was all that saved the boodle, which consisted of $3,300 and two gold watches. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Ten to one they grabbed the fellers and recovered all that fine boodle we read about! Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie In business the aristocracy of birth or the aristocracy of boodle is a decided handicap. Dollars and Sense I've been in touch with Red lately—he's been up in Nova Scotia but doesn't like the climate, and he wants his boodle. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! He advises me, as between friends, to make a clean breast of it, return the boodle, betray my accomplices, plead mental deficiency and trust to the clemency of the Court. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 The old squatter was a partner with the Colonel, and with his part of the boodle nicely done up in his wallet, was present with bouyant hopes and feelings high. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Even Tammany's thoughts began to lift above the sordid level of boodle. A Honeymoon in Space Without brains, business would go to the dogs, for if business were conducted by men of birth and boodle without brains, you can easily see that the whole fabric would fall to pieces. Dollars and Sense One of the brotherhood has commissioned me to dig up some boodle he's planted over in New Hampshire. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! There's no one going to get away with the boodle Allan gave his life for—not if I can hold him up. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The chief was afterwards apprehended and sent up for seven years, but he held on to his boodle. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers On the other hand, considering that I was a relative, considering that there was going to be plenty of boodle for everybody, some people might say that there was an element of dishonesty in it. The Short Cut We measure the other fellow either by his knowledge—which is brains, by his pedigree—which is birth, or by the money he has accumulated—which is boodle. Dollars and Sense Transactions by Ministers were said to "stink," while the Ministers themselves were described as carrying off or distributing "swag" and "boodle." Gilbert Keith Chesterton Why, lately I even asked my cousin in a letter about that man, and he wrote me the old chap had strangely disappeared some years ago, carrying off a big bunch of boodle dishonestly gained. The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight What you have got to worry about isn't wreckin' tools, but how to get rid of the boodle if it's there. Great Sea Stories Maybe I did n't get just the straight o' it, but anyhow they held up a paymaster, er something like that, fer a big boodle. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier Mankind is prone to look at the brighter stars of birth and boodle. Dollars and Sense II of the Eye Witness, for instance, we find the "game of boodle," "dirty trick," "Keep your eye on the Railway Bill: you are going to be fleeced," and "stunt" and "ramp" passim. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Gettysburg sat down, adding: "Why can't you wait, Van, wait till the whole kit and boodle of us can move to the bran'-new claim?" The Furnace of Gold "Sacks," cried Blood, "what are you talking about; it was you who let them go, shouting good day to them and telling them we'd got the boodle!" Great Sea Stories "That's what's bothering us," announced a member; "it isn't the boodle crowd that's hollering, but a new set, and I don't understand them; I don't know what they represent, nor just how influential they are." The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel The aristocracies of birth and boodle are sham counterfeits gotten up by man. Dollars and Sense Shall you cut right out with the boodle? The Man in the Twilight "Oh yes, they did, right at the top, till one fine day it all bust and the old man skipped with the boodle—" "Skipped with the boodle?" The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories You look as well as any of them, and you've got the boodle. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories When you want him to hand you the boodle He's not such a nice little boy. The Divine Fire The aristocracy of boodle is the slimmest aristocracy of all. Dollars and Sense I’d be quite sure that Mr. Pickering hadn’t made away with the old gentleman’s boodle, or that it didn’t get lost on the way from him to me.” The House of a Thousand Candles Before we knew it, the whole kit and boodle of us were in a devil of a shakeup there in the broad water. D'Ri and I Percival Coolidge; he knew too much and got gay; he planned to cop the whole boodle. The Case and the Girl Fancy the mingled amazement and dismay of the Dean and Chapter when they were informed that all this mouldering literary trash had 'boodle' in it. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Let him get the boodle and hand him a sour one. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On I think the chief officer must have told the men below about the Water-devil, for pretty soon the whole kit and boodle of them left their work and came on deck, skipper and all. The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories When they had done with this jollification, Tug, who objected to doing things by halves, asked: "Why not kidnap the whole kit and boodle of them?" The Dozen from Lakerim Well, maybe a slice of old Coolidge's boodle. The Case and the Girl I take it you wouldn't have refused your share if the boodle had fallen to us? The Amateur Cracksman This "boodle" deal evokes the query whether if a candidate for Judge will buy his election he will not sell his justice. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 She had more gall than a ward heeler, more tenacity than an office- seeker, more brains than a boodle alderman. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 I would like to know before I go to bed just how much boodle I have acquired. Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience It's a queer, mixed-up deal, and I don't fancy it much, but there's boodle in it. The Octopus : A story of California The latter were directed to find out who had the "Democratic boodle" and force them, presumably by competition, to pay big prices for their own men. The United States Since the Civil War Still, boodle does not map out all the social metes and bounds. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 I'm the real thing—a good old Cotton-Petticoat—birth, breeding and boodle. Ptomaine Street Billy received the boodle as if it had been chewing gum or a soiled handkerchief, and stuffed it indifferently into his already bulging pocket in a crumple as if it were not worth the effort. The City of Fire A good enough punch, sah, but one that—that—a—well, that the whole kit and boodle of us can drink. The Magnetic North He told me that, in his opinion, boodle was at the bottom of it. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People You may play the Baptist racket for all it is worth; but the brethren while long on zeal are shy on boodle. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 But on his own showing the electors merely regard it as an opportunity for extracting "boodle." Without Prejudice The modern, down-to-date, age considers seriously not patriotism but "graft" and "price" and "boodle." Their Yesterdays Of course, if it goes on to anything serious, you'll have to put away the real 'boodle,' where I have something to run with, if I have to cut it. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story The telephone was not then in existence; there were no Pullman cars; the words "boodle" and "wire," in the sense here used, had never been heard. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Some of the brawlers were self-seeking business men, willing to coin blood into boodle, ready to slander Deity for a plugged dime, anxious to avert a Baptist boycott by emitting a deal of stinking breath. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Methinks I'm tagged to join the Worry Club, To chase the fleeting rhino through the gloom, To bag the boodle, trap the wild mazume And scratch for corn when Pansy hollers "Grub!" The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor As soon as check mentioned in letter comes I'll send you your "sheer" of the boodle. Rolling Stones His share of the boodle passed through your hands. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million In the mean time the governor had heard the whisper of "boodle"—a word of the day expressive of a corrupt legislative fund. The Titan Somewhat more than thirty years ago, a group of New York city fathers acquired an international fame as the "boodle aldermen." The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry One story was that a corps of Pinkertons would be employed to look for bugs in bills, boodle in sacks, and boodle-itching palms. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 "Old Losada would make it a hot country," he remarked at length, "for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle, don't you think?" Cabbages and Kings Then one of the chiefs will make a speech in which he presents you with the whole kit and boodle. The Cruise of the Snark I pumped it out of the eminent legal lights that turned over to me poor old dad's collections of bonds and boodle. Strictly business: more stories of the four million A conscientious, upright man, that cares nothing for boodle, and keeps clear of their intrigues, conspiracies, and factions, soon gets his passports. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard He didn't want to be seen taking the boodle from the express company at Tucson. Bucky O'Connor The hint that the "boodle" was "six figures short" made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear. Cabbages and Kings He sets at the table with the boodle before him, all done up in neat packages. The Gentle Grafter We get the highfliers from Cuba and Mexico and the couple of Americas farther south; and they've simply got the boodle to bombard every bulfinch in the bush with.' Roads of Destiny Today the country is ringing with the cry of political bribery, boodle and official corruption, from the highest to the lowest. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation We had to have that paper of his to find the boodle. Bucky O'Connor And then Homer P. Mellinger takes up the bundle of boodle and slams it in the governor man's face. Cabbages and Kings What do they spell but brag and blow and boodle in box-car letters? The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million I know there's boodle in her, and I mean to keep her. The Wrecker But Epimetheus was a very slow fellow, certainly, and went among men for a clod, and a muff, and a milksop, and a slowcoach, and a bloke, and a boodle, and so forth. The Water-Babies Hand 'em back the boodle; and maybe they'll let you off light. Cabbages and Kings |
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